Chapter 256

In the third-floor room of the underground ruins, the three stood together to rest and prepare to continue the journey. So far, they hadn't encountered any Ringed Shushi, but this was already the limit. It was impossible for the Silver-Eyed One not to have discovered them.

If he was really stupid enough to forget to carry out extra vigilance in the ruins, he wouldn't have lived until now.

"However, how did the people of Mercury Blood pass through here?"

Miss Beiya thought of this question:

"Do they also have special individuals like the Detective?"

"This mirror effect is not obvious to Ringed Shushi above the seventh ring. Although the Silver-Eyed One's strength has slipped to the sixth-ring level, he is indeed still a ninth-ring Shushi. He can completely move forward while resisting the damage and explore the ruins alone. Perhaps when the 【Mercury Blood】 organization developed these ruins, it was only the few Shushi above the seventh ring who served as the main exploration members."

Miss Annette gave a guess and then added:

"Of course, it's also possible that they mastered other safe methods."

"We didn't encounter the person the Detective said came in this morning. Does this mean that the other party is also above the seventh ring and is waiting for us inside?"

Miss Beiya asked again, and Miss Annette tossed a coin and then said to Xia De:

"Listen to the sound, there might be gains after the third time."

"No problem."

He closed his eyes and made his hearing sharper.

The first attempt, Miss Beiya's voice was describing Xia De smashing the mirror with a punch.

The second attempt, the sound of heavy breathing seemed to be in his ear, but it disappeared quickly, and there was no other sound after waiting for half a minute.

The third attempt, he heard the end of a conversation—

"... so absolutely don't approach that tree."

Then the footsteps left here, the footsteps were very heavy, as if carrying something heavy.

The fourth attempt, he finally got the answer:

"I didn't expect the countermeasure for this Relic to be so simple. Carrying another mirror to completely block your face can exempt the effect of 【Mirror Behind】."

This was that man with a strange accent, the Ringed Shushi from 【Blood Spirit School】 who entered here in the morning.

"No, only those above the fourth ring can use this method. Below the fourth ring, even if there is a mirror blocking the front, they will be hurt by the Relic... why did only you come alone? What about the others?"

This voice had never been heard before.

"Silver-Eyed One, do you think it's easy to get from the New Continent to the Old Continent? Originally, the two people arranged by the organization should have been able to arrive in Tobesk on the weekend, probably arriving at Coldwater Port tonight. But the organization received your letter and knew that there was that tree in the ruins, so they let me take the risk to come here to see you. Do you know how important the mission I was originally performing nearby was? The mission I was performing was related to an Unknowable-level Relic! I hope your information is correct, that the tree in the ruins really..."

Xia De opened his eyes and looked at the door on the right. After the footsteps crossed the door, all sounds disappeared immediately.

"What's the result?"

Miss Beiya asked.

"The stranger is below the seventh ring and above the fourth ring."

Xia De frowned, feeling a bit uneasy in his heart:

"The other party is definitely from 【Blood Spirit School】, but not the one originally arranged to come here. The other party was originally performing another plan nearby, suspected to be related to the runaway Level 0 Relic handled by the Church. Because of a tree, the stranger was urgently arranged to come here to meet the Silver-Eyed One."

"Blood Spirit School? Tree?"

Miss Annette looked even more uneasy than Xia De:

"This is really terrible. The history of the Blood Spirit School can be traced back several eras. The things that such ancient organizations care about probably won't be simple."

"But what is the tree?"

Miss Beiya asked.

"I guess that 'tree' refers to the Relic suppressed here. Oh, remember, absolutely don't approach any tree, that thing is very dangerous."

Xia De reminded, and Miss Annette became more and more uneasy. Miss Beiya still had the confidence to continue moving forward, and Xia De didn't pay much attention to the things in front of the ruins.

What he cared about was the top of his head. He hadn't forgotten the unease he told the maid in the carriage.

But in short, they didn't have time to stay too long and could only continue to move forward.

This time it was still Miss Annette walking at the very front. She took out a compass to guide the direction, put on a monocle to break illusions, and then pushed open the stone door pointed out by Xia De.

Behind the door was a narrow corridor, and the floor, ceiling, and left and right were all brick walls made of large stone bricks. The corridor was not long, and a fork in the road could be seen not far ahead. This was the special illusion constructed by the Document-level Relic 【Maze Candle】 brought into the ruins by the Silver-Eyed One.

"Follow me, this maze will change its structure at any time, and it's hard to walk out by luck without guidance."

The female diviner waved to the two behind her, and they continued to maintain the formation of Xia De in the middle and Miss Beiya at the end.

"However, since the candle was brought into the ruins by the Silver-Eyed One, what was the space behind this door originally used for?"

Xia De asked in a low voice when setting off, but his companions couldn't give an answer to this question either.

Getting closer and closer to the deepest part of the ruins, they all maintained extreme vigilance. Miss Annette walked at the front with the compass. Even with the guidance of the compass, she would toss coins to divine at every fork and choose the direction.

She was only a Third-Ring Shushi, and the correctness of the divination could not be guaranteed, but there was no problem in trying.

Xia De walked between the two ladies, theoretically the safest. Therefore, during the walk, he had time to turn his head to look at Miss Beiya behind him, who looked at him suspiciously:

"Is something wrong?"

"Nothing."

Xia De shook his head, sighing in his heart that the seventeen-year-old girl behind him was really very different from her peers.

Five minutes after entering the maze, the three heard a strange sound from afar, as if some kind of animal cub was crying. The sound lasted for a full thirty seconds before stopping, but it had been echoing in the maze ever since.

Judging from the information found, this Document-level Relic that formed the maze was only used to create a maze, and there were no dangerous animals in the maze to hunt the people who broke into the maze. But the sound didn't seem like a collective hallucination of the three, so Miss Annette reminded her two companions behind her to be ready for battle.

Eight minutes after entering the maze, footsteps appeared at the fork ahead. But when the three, whose vigilance had reached its peak, rushed to the fork, they didn't see any figures in the other three directions of the fork.

Miss Annette was very uneasy and tossed coins three times on the spot, but there was no result:

"The most likely situation is that the Silver-Eyed One discovered us."

"Finally discovered us."

Miss Beiya said in a low voice.

Before the sound fell, the ground under their feet began to tremble at this moment.

The maze was trembling.